Corey Crawford

Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford was staggering. But even though he had just taken a shot to the mask in the Hawks' 4-1 playoff victory over the Wild on May 3, he remained on the ice. Coach Joel Quenneville, when asked afterward if there was concern Crawford had suffered a head injury, said: "He was fine and he's fine." Perhaps. But that decision should not have been for the Hawks to make. Nobody in the NHL likes to talk about injuries, much less concussions, but the league's concussion protocol has a gaping hole in need of major changes. When it comes to handling concussions, the NHL is miles behind the NFL — hardly the model on the issue. In the...

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